Virgil: A Life by Levi, Peter NEUF 2024

Product Name: Virgil: A Life by Levi, Peter NEUF 2024
EAN：9781848859043 UPC：9781848859043 ISBN：9781848859043 2024 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 272 pages
In this biography, the eminent classicist Peter Levi uses Virgils poems, like the Eclogues, Georgics, his epic, The Aeneid, as well as historical and archeological evidence, to discard many of the myths surrounding Virgils life. In doing so, he uncovers the life of a poet whose powerful imagination and ethereal ability helped shape the epic vision of modern man. Indeed, Virgils densely written and beautifully complex verse dominated Augustan Rome, the period of unprecedented prosperity, peace, and expansion that inaugurated the Golden Age of Roman poetry. Virgil, in fact, was the one poet who most fully understood the Roman Empires enduring legacy and through his poetry defined the idea of civilization for generations to come. Although contemporary critics and readers often overlook Virgils genius, Levi demonstrates that to neglect Virgil is to truncate many of the literary foundations of our culture..